Fractional CEO (Stakeholder / Partner Manager) | Multi-Business Group | Not an Operating CEO

Read this first. This is not an operating CEO role. We already have a COO. You will not run the businesses. This is not advisory. This is not decks. This is not "be the founder's friend". You sit between the Founder (shareholder) and the business-unit owners. The Founder owns a % in each unit. Those owners get needy and treat him as a mate. Your job is to make that relationship commercial and keep him out of it. About the group AI-enabled infrastructure and services platform. Multiple operating businesses (trades + professional services) plus shared services. Monday.com is the control point. Telegram is short comms only. You must want to use basic AI and already be able to. ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, monday, simple agents. If AI is optional for you, do not apply. What you own - One structured lane for all owner/partner contact - Monthly owner reviews, prepped, decision or nothing - Direct conversations: this is a partnership, not a friendship - Escalate to the Founder only for cash risk, legal/reputation, a % or deal issue, or a partner who will not comply - Keep owners on Monday.com and the Founder working rules - Work with the Finance/Legal founder on agreements What you do not own - Day-to-day operations (COO) - Being the Founder's EA - Jumping into business units "to help" - Replacing the COO or the Founder First 90 hours This is 2026. We do not do a 90-day onboarding story. In the first 90 hours: map every owner and % position, install one owner cadence, cut unscheduled owner-to-Founder contact to near zero, and bring the Founder only prepped decisions. Who this is for You have held partners or shareholders, not only staff. You can say no. You are commercial. You want to use basic AI and you already can. You do not want a big-salary 2015 Group CEO job. Do not apply if you are a coach, a corporate spin doctor, you need to run the P&L yourself to feel useful, or you treat AI as optional. Remote / worldwide. Some overlap with Sydney time is expected. Application (short) 1. Largest partner/owner group you have managed. How many entities and what was your role? 2. Example: you stopped a needy owner going around you to the founder. What did you do? 3. How would you use the first 90 hours here without sitting in operations? 4. Which AI tools do you actually use yourself, and for what? 5. Hours you can give in Sydney time, and your monthly retainer expectation. 6. Confirm you understand this is not an operating CEO seat.